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Exactly my view =) I have a 7yo daughter and she has just tried some block based programming challenges and she loved tinkering and predicting what the program

Exactly my view =) I have a 7yo daughter and she has just tried some block based programming challenges and she loved tinkering and predicting what the program would do, and then fixing the bugs. Gave her a real sense of accomplishment. I also don't think it will automatically send her on to a career as a programmer. But I think it is important for everyone nowadays to have at least an notion of how software works, given that there is software is almost everything we use these days...

agar 9y ago
> I think it is important for everyone nowadays to have at least an notion of how software works, given that there is software is almost everything we use these days... I couldn't agree more. Education isn't just learning facts, it's providing tools so kids can contextualize the world around them. When the world is powered by software, even a passing familiarity with the basics of programming will be as important as learning history, literature, or basic science.